Industrial Production Plans Overfulfilled

Good tidings of industrial enterprises fulfilling the annual state plans ahead of schedule have been streaming in from all parts of the country since the beginning of December. Hopei, Kwangsi. Honan and Kirin all have met their production quotas of raw coal for this year ahead of time. Following the overfulfilment of the tasks set by the state for seven years running, the coal industry in Hopei Province fulfilled ahead of schedule its 1975 plans for raw coal, dressed coal and extraction footage. Compared with last year, production, of raw and dressed coal was up 12.21 and 9.25 per cent and extraction footage increased 11.86 per cent. After fulfilling the annual state plan ahead of schedule, workers and staff members of the Kailan Coal Mine are now striving to double the designed raw coal production capacity by year's end. Mines in Kwangsi have adhered to the principle of self-reliance and stepped up production by making the necessary equipment themselves. Hupeh and Kweichow fulfilled their annual plans for chemical fertilizer and phosphate fertilizer respectively by the end of October. Hupeh Province met its phosphate fertilizer production plan four months ahead of schedule, while output of phosphate ore, troilite ore and humate fertilizer topped the state plans. Statistics from departments concerned show that by the end of October a great number of enterprises in southwest China's Szechuan Province had fulfilled annual state plans ahead of schedule. They included machinery plants, instrument and meter factories, motor vehicle works and wireless appliances factories which shoulder important production tasks in the national economy. In the south. Kwangtung Province has made great headway with its small cement industry which has a total of 161 small plants set up in the province's 107 counties and cities. These plants met their production targets more than two months ahead of time and output was 4.5 times that of 1965. the year preceding the start of the Great Cultural Revolution. This has given powerful support to farmland capital construction.